• Preface to the instructor
• Mean, median, and mode
• Variability
• Shapes of distributions
• Probability and the normal distribution
• The standard normal distribution : z scores
• Sampling distributions
• Hypothesis testing : significance, effect size, and confidence intervals
• Power
• t tests : one-sample, two-independent-sample, and related-samples designs
• One-way analysis of variance : between-subjects and repeated-measures designs
• Two-way analysis of variance : between-subjects factorial design
• Correlation
• Linear regression.

• Preface Acknowledgments About the Author
• Part 1: Understanding what surveys are and how they are used
• 1. What is a survey?
• 2. How are surveys used?
• 3. What are the benefits of doing a survey?
• 4. What is the survey research process from beginning to end?
• 5. How are good empirical research questions developed?
• 6. What are the various types of survey design?
• 7. How do we choose the right survey design?
• Part 2: Addressing ethical concerns in survey research
• 8. What are the main ethical concerns of research?
• 9. If surveys are just about asking people questions, why are ethical considerations important?
• 10. Who ensures that research is ethical?
• 11. How Do IRBs Monitor Research Ethics?
• 12. What is the process of submitting a Survey Study to the IRB?
• 13. What is informed consent?
• 14. What Are Confidentiality and Anonymity, and How Are They Maintained?
• 15. What are the ethical concerns for collecting and analyzing data?
• Part 3: Selecting a sample
• 16. Who is asked to take the survey?
• 17. What Is a Sample, and What Is Sampling?
• 18. What is a sampling frame?
• 19. How do we know if the sample size is large enough?
• 20. How does probability work?
• 21. What is sampling theory?
• 22. What is the Central Limit Theorem?
• 23. What is random sampling error?
• 24. What are the types of probability samples?
• 25. How is a simple random sample collected?
• 26. What is stratified random sampling?
• 27. How is a proportionate stratified probability sample collected?
• 28. How is a disproportionate stratified probability sample collected?
• 29. How do we make disproportionate stratified samples representative of the population?
• 30. How is a cluster sample collected?
• 31. How do we select a sample if the population is not easy to find?
• 32. What is a response rate?
• Part 4: Writing good survey questions
• 33. What is involved in writing good survey questions?
• 34. How do we connect a theoretical concept to a survey question?
• 35. How do we write survey questions for complex theoretical concepts?
• 36. Do We Need to Create New Questions, or Can We Use Existing Questions?
• 37. What are the basic rules to writing good survey questions?
• 38. Are there more advanced rules to writing survey questions?
• 39. What are the best response options to use with survey questions?
• 40. What Is the Measurement Level of a Survey Question, and Why Is That Important?
• 41. When are open-ended questions used in survey research?
• 42. How do we order the survey questions?
• Part 5: Establishing the reliability and validity of survey questions
• 43. How do we ensure our survey questions measure what they are supposed to?
• 44. How is content validity established?
• 45. What is criterion validity?
• 46. What is construct validity?
• 47. What is measurement reliability, and how is it established?
• 48. What is measurement error?
• 49. How can measurement error be minimized?
• 50. How Can Pretesting and Pilot Testing Improve Reliability and Validity?
• Part 6: Conducting the survey
• 51. Once the survey is designed, how is the survey conducted?
• 52. How often can we contact the sample to get them to participate?
• 53. How are the potential members of the sample contacted?
• 54. How are the sample members persuaded to participate?
• 55. What should be included in a cover letter?
• 56. What other strategies can increase survey participation?
• 57. How do we keep track of who has and has not participated?
• 58. How do we conduct a longitudinal study?
• 59. What Other Survey Administration Issues May Arise?
• 60. How do we take care of survey participants?
• Part 7: Entering and cleaning the data
• 61. Do we need to plan ahead for data entry, cleaning, and analysis?
• 62. My data is collected. Now what do I do?
• 63. How do we do data entry?
• 64. What issues might arise with data entry?
• 65. What types of survey questions are difficult to enter into the database?
• 66. What is a codebook, and why is it important?
• 67. What other sorts of documentation are needed, and why?
• 68. What is data cleaning?
• 69. How Are "Other Specify" Responses Coded?
• 70. How are open-ended questions coded?
• Part 8: Exploring the data with univariate statistical analysis
• 71. What are the goals of data analysis?
• 72. What are variables?
• 73. What are descriptive statistics?
• 74. How do we estimate central tendency and variation in categorical and ordinal variables?
• 75. How do we examine central tendency in continuous variables?
• 76. How do we examine variation in continuous variables when using the median?
• 77. How do we examine variation in continuous variables when using the mean?
• 78. What are inferential statistics?
• 79. How do we infer the population parameter?
• 80. What is significance testing?
• Part 9: Assessing associations with bivariate statistical tests and regression
• 81. What is meant by association between variables?
• 82. How do we assess an association between two continuous variables?
• 83. How do we determine if a correlation between two continuous variables is statistically significant?
• 84. How do we assess association between a categorical and a continuous variable?
• 85. How do we assess association between two categorical variables?
• 86. How do we display and report these bivariate statistics?
• 87. What is linear regression, and what are its benefits?
• 88. What is OLS regression with a continuous independent variable?
• 89. How do we know if the regression coefficients are statistically significant?
• 90. How do we interpret OLS regression with a categorical independent variable?
• 91. How do we interpret linear regression with more than one predictor variable?
• 92. How do we display and report these regression statistics?
• Part 10: Writing up the analyses in report form
• 93. Who is my audience, and why does it matter?
• 94. What is a good report outline?
• 95. How much of the methodology needs to be included in the report?
• 96. What are the most important parts of the analyses to include in the report?
• 97. How do we report on the sample of respondents?
• 98. How many charts and tables should we include in the report?
• 99. How do we describe charts and tables in the report?
• 100. What is an executive summary, and why is it important? References and Resources Index.
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Students and researchers across the social sciences.
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• Présentation
• Prologue ? Hygiénisme
• 1935 - Grandiose
• 1942 - Monumental
• 1943 - Urbanisme
• 1945 - Évangile
• 1946 - Reconstruction
• 1947 - Désert
• 1948 - Loyers
• 1949 ? Expériences
• 1950 - Sacrifices
• 1951 - Indochine
• 19S2 - Pré-révolutionnaire
• 1953 - Économiques
• 1954 - Urgence
• 1955 - Taudis
• 1956 - Régénérer
• 1957 - Communauté
• 1958 - Zone
• 1959 - Concentrationnaire
• 1960 - Ségrégation
• 1961 ? Spéculation
• 1962 - Rapatriés
• 1963 - Cafard
• 1964 - Médiocre
• 1965 - Marée
• 1966 - Prostitution
• 1967 - Futuriste
• 1968 - Blocage
• 1969 - Libéral
• 1970 - Maison
• 1971 - Meurtre
• 1972 - Révolte
• 1973 - Redressement
• Épilogue - Amers
• Post-scriptum ? Fantômes.

"Pourquoi la France, qui se voulait la nation de l'art de vivre, de la mesure et de la démocratie, a-t-elle été le pays développé qui a le plus mal logé ses habitants, et pourquoi s'est-elle enfoncée dans une perpétuelle crise du logement, cause d'un malaise urbain dont elle peine encore à s'extraire ? Nous avons aujourd'hui une vision faussée des problèmes des banlieues : la dérive des quartiers commencerait après la crise économique de 1974 et serait liée à l'immigration. Or Xavier de Jarcy, en reconstituant la genèse des quartiers de banlieue étape par étape et en donnant à entendre la parole de tous les intervenants - ministres, élus locaux, architectes, constructeurs, promoteurs. démographes, géographes et, bien entendu, habitants -, nous montre que les erreurs d'urbanisme, le sous-équipement et la ségrégation sociale ont été constatés bien plus tôt. Nés des théories prônant un urbanisme autoritaire formulées dans l'entre-deux-guerres, les grands ensembles devaient mettre fin aux taudis, mais aussi façonner une population saine, morale et productive dans un pays mis en ordre - les cités marquent l'échec de ce projet d'hygiénisme social. C'est dans le cadre d'une permanente économie de guerre et sous l'empire d'un "dirigisme sans argent" que les nouveaux quartiers seront érigés. On construit mal, n'importe où, n'importe comment. Au tournant des années 1970, le libéralisme s'impose brutalement, avec pour conséquence que les derniers grands ensembles, déréglementés, accumuleront des problèmes à ce jour irrésolus."--Page 4 of cover.

This volume offers a pioneering study of slavery in the Italian states. Documenting previously unstudied cases of slavery in six Italian cities-Naples, Caserta, Rome, Palermo, Livorno and Genoa-Giulia Bonazza investigates why slavery survived into the middle of the nineteenth century, even as the abolitionist debate raged internationally and most states had abolished it. She contextualizes these cases of residual slavery from 1750-1850, focusing on two juridical and political watersheds: after the Napoleonic period, when the Italian states (with the exception of the Papal States) adopted constitutions outlawing slavery; and after the Congress of Vienna, when diplomatic relations between the Italian states, France and Great Britain intensified and slavery was condemned in terms that covered only the Atlantic slave trade. By excavating the lives of men and women who remained in slavery after abolition, this book sheds new light on the broader Mediterranean and transatlantic dimensions of slavery in the Italian states.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9783030013486 20190408

• Preface and acknowledgments
• Making their bodies dens of murder? : the physicians' 19th-century campaign to criminalize abortion
• The evolving legal status of abortion
• The crisis pregnancy centers and the roots of the contemporary abortion regret narrative
• Beyond the crisis pregnancy centers : the regret narrative moves from the margins to the center of the anti-abortion movement
• Protecting women for their own good : the reemergence of legal paternalism
• Methods appendix
• Notes
• Index.

• "Making their bodies dens of murder": the physicians' 19th-century campaign to criminalize abortion
• The evolving legal status of abortion
• The crisis pregnancy centers and the roots of the contemporary abortion regret narrative
• Beyond the crisis pregnancy centers: regret moves from the margins to the center of the antiabortion movement
• Protecting women for their own good: the reemergence of legal paternalism
• Methods appendix.

• Vorrede und Danksagung
• Zugänge zu einem liminalen Forschungsraum
• Sicherheit im Alltagsgespräch : der Dorfbahnhof
• Terror, Subjekt und der Kurzschluss im Alltagsmilieu
• Verwundbarkeit, Heldentum und das Ethnografieren des Crashs
• Mythos, Fiktion und beschleunigte Macht : zur ideologischen Dynamik des Narrativen in gegenwärtigen Subjektivierungsregimes
• Krisenjahre, Panikzeiten : eine Feldforschung im Fluss
• Die Verwirrung der Diskurse : Zugfahrt mit Rucksack
• Übergänge und Schilderräume
• Airport Security : die Unübersichtlichkeit der Einreise
• Security, Safety, Certainty und ihre institutionelle Performanz
• Der ethnografische Weg : Prozess und Reflexion
• Zeichen und Züge : Bomben und die Abschottung der Alltagsmenschen
• Mind the Gap
• Please Take Care
• Die urbane Landschaft der Securitization
• Totalität und Leere der Sicherheit
• Seriously Strong Security : Automobile Sicherheitsmarkierungen
• Absurder Verkehr
• Baustellen : zur Geschichte der Sicherheitsregime
• Drei Baustellenszenarios
• Die Versicherung als Gesellschaftsmodell
• Der industrielle Unfall als Medium der Securitization
• Der Sozialstaat als Übergang und Knotenpunkt
• Risikogesellschaft und neoliberale Transformation
• Die Regime von Health and Safety und die präventive Sicherheit der Körper
• Site-Safe : Neoliberalismus und Aktivismus am Knotenpunkt Baustelle
• High Visibility : die Semantik der Warnweste
• Rettungsgelbe Angst
• Die Verunsicherung des Gesprächsanfangs
• Nachbarschaft in Victoria Walk : Steve und Rose
• Frauen in der Sicherheits-Bubble : Ella und Lydia
• Initiale
• Spionage, Subversion, Gemeinsamkeit
• Innenräume der Nachbarschaft
• Familie, Norm und Verunreinigung : Aileen und Daphne
• Drunghill : der intime Raum der Community
• Doing Neighbourhood : Kommunikative Sicherungspraxen
• Kontinuität, Wandel und Verwundbarkeit : die Alten
• Nachbarschaftliche Schwellenwesen : die Jugendlichen
• Such a hoodoo
• Intimität, Macht, Missbrauch : die Kinder
• Angst und Alltagserzählen
• Weihnachtsgeschichten
• Just keep us constantly worrying
• Die Narrativität der Gefahr
• Das Baby auf dem Rücksitz
• Kettenbriefe, Verschvvörungstheorien und andere digitale Verunsicherungen
• Newsflashs : Titeleien und die Zirkulation der Unsicherheit
• Nachbarschaftskrimi im Dunkeln
• Der Tod im Pub-Garten und die Angst des Sozialen
• Christophers Verschwinden und die Allsichtbarkeit der Sicherheit
• Einbruch und Erfahrung
• Community Safety Policing und die Einbrecher an der Hintertür
• Erste Erfahrungsgeschichte : der Einbruch ins Daheim
• Der Riss im Leben und die Wiedergewinnung von Alltag
• Zweite Erfahrungsgeschichte : der Unfall
• Dritte Erfahrungsgeschichte : die Katastrophe
• Die absurde Welt der Sicherheit
• Von der Ambivalenz des Alltäglichen zur Paradoxie der Sicherheit
• Die unsichtbare Wand im Alltag
• Das absurde Selbst und die Angst : Wiederbegegnung mit Albert Camus
• Das Lachen der Alltagsmenschen : Erfahrung und Widerständigkeit
• Flapjacks oder : Wenn Ethnografie Schwanke erzählt
• Abbildungsverzeichnis
• Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis
• Literatur
• Filme, Radio- und Fernsehsendungen, Webseiten und Zeitungsartikel.

A history of design that is often overlooked-until we need it Have you ever hit the big blue button to activate automatic doors? Have you ever used an ergonomic kitchen tool? Have you ever used curb cuts to roll a stroller across an intersection? If you have, then you've benefited from accessible design-design for people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities. These ubiquitous touchstones of modern life were once anything but. Disability advocates fought tirelessly to ensure that the needs of people with disabilities became a standard part of public design thinking. That fight took many forms worldwide, but in the United States it became a civil rights issue; activists used design to make an argument about the place of people with disabilities in public life. In the aftermath of World War II, with injured veterans returning home and the polio epidemic reaching the Oval Office, the needs of people with disabilities came forcibly into the public eye as they never had before. The U.S. became the first country to enact federal accessibility laws, beginning with the Architectural Barriers Act in 1968 and continuing through the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, bringing about a wholesale rethinking of our built environment. This progression wasn't straightforward or easy. Early legislation and design efforts were often haphazard or poorly implemented, with decidedly mixed results. Political resistance to accommodating the needs of people with disabilities was strong; so, too, was resistance among architectural and industrial designers, for whom accessible design wasn't "real" design. Williamson provides an extraordinary look at everyday design, marrying accessibility with aesthetic, to provide an insight into a world in which we are all active participants, but often passive onlookers. Richly detailed, with stories of politics and innovation, Bess Williamson's Accessible America takes us through this important history, showing how American ideas of individualism and rights came to shape the material world, often with unexpected consequences.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781479894093 20190304

"From a distinctive, inimitable voice, a wickedly funny and fascinating romp through the strange, and often contradictory history of Western parenting"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Consumer Capitalism and Addiction
• PART I: The Shifting Problem of Consumption
• 1. Luxurious Excess: The Emergence of Commodity Culture
• 2. Industrial Modernity: The Birth of the Addict
• 3. Intensified Consumption and the Expansion of Addiction
• PART II: Addictive Consumptions: Drugs, Food, Gambling
• 4. Drugs: Intoxicating Consumption
• 5. Food: Embodied Consumption
• 6. Gambling: Dematerialised Consumption
• Afterword.
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In this engaging new book, Gerda Reith explores key theoretical concepts in the sociology of consumption. Drawing on the ideas of Foucault, Marx and Bataille, amongst others, she investigates the ways that understandings of `the problems of consumption' change over time, and asks what these changes can tell us about their wider social and political contexts. Through this, she uses ideas about both consumption and addiction to explore issues around identity and desire, excess and control and reason and disorder. She also assesses how our concept of 'normal' consumption has grown out of efforts to regulate behaviour historically considered as disruptive or deviant, and how in the contemporary world the 'dark side' of consumption has been medicalised in terms of addiction, pathology and irrationality. By drawing on case studies of drugs, food and gambling, the volume demonstrates the ways in which modern practices of consumption are rooted in historical processes and embedded in geopolitical structures of power. It not only asks how modern consumer culture came to be in the form it is today, but also questions what its various manifestations can tell us about wider issues in capitalist modernity. Addictive Consumption offers a compelling new perspective on the origins, development and problems of consumption in modern society. The volume's interdisciplinary profile will appeal to scholars and students in sociology, psychology, history, philosophy and anthropology.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9780415268271 20181119

• Contents:
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The American school
• 3. America's "Left-Out"
• 4. The British school
• 5. Britain's "Far-Out"
• 6. Continental Europe
• 7. Latin America
• 8. China
• 9. The geography of IPE
• 10. What have we learned? Index.
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Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas. Now in its second edition, Benjamin J. Cohen's introduction provides a comprehensive and up-to-date global survey of the field of international political economy. With detailed discussions regarding the divergent paths of different schools of thought in the field, this unique guide explores the links between contending factions. This Advanced Introduction gives students access to the multiple analytical styles and traditions of all perspectives in this rich field of study. Key features of the second edition: * Concise introduction to the field in an accessible, non-technical form updated with the most recent discussions in IPE * Further in depth analysis of the most established American and British schools of IPE * Extended discussion of other key regions contributing to IPE, including Continental Europe, Latin America, Australia, Canada and China. Written in a concise and dynamic style, this Advanced Introduction serves as a thoughtful entry point text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as being an excellent go-to resource for scholars specializing in international political economy.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781788971560 20190311

• 1. Conceptualising Adventure.2. Adventure and Contemporary Society.3. Daily Adventure Practices.4. Adventure and Risk.5. Adventure, Capitalism and Corporations.6. Adventure, Technology and Social Media.7. Adventure and Equalities.8. Adventure and Identity.9. Adventure and Personal and Social Development.10. Adventure and Tourism.11. Adventure and Sustainability.
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This book provides a broad overview of the ways in which `adventurous practices' influence, and are influenced by, the world around them. The concept of adventure is one that is too often tackled within subject silos of philosophy, education, tourism, or leisure. While much of the analysis is strong, there is little cross-pollination between disciplines. Adventure & Society pulls together the threads of these discourses into one coherent treatment of the term `adventure' and the role that it plays in human social life of the 21st century. It explores how these practices can be considered more deeply through theoretical discourses of capitalism, identity construction, technology and social media, risk-taking, personal development, equalities, and sustainability. As such, the book speaks to a broad audience of undergraduate and postgraduate students across diverse subject areas, and aims to be an accessible starting point for deeper inquiry.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9783319960616 20190318

How online affinity networks expand learning and opportunity for young peopleBoyband One Direction fanfiction writers, gamers who solve math problems together, Harry Potter fans who knit for a cause. Across subcultures and geographies, young fans have found each other and formed community online, learning from one another along the way. From these and other in-depth case studies of online affinity networks, Affinity Online considers how young people have found new opportunities for expanded learning in the digital age. These cases reveal the shared characteristics and unique cultures and practices of different online affinity networks, and how they support "connected learning"-learning that brings together youth interests, social activity, and accomplishment in civic, academic, and career relevant arenas. Although involvement in online communities is an established fixture of growing up in the networked age, participation in these spaces show how young people are actively taking up new media for their own engaged learning and social development. While providing a wealth of positive examples for how the online world provides new opportunities for learning, the book also examines the ways in which these communities still reproduce inequalities based on gender, race, and socioeconomic status. The book concludes with a set of concrete suggestions for how the positive learning opportunities offered by online communities could be made available to more young people, at school and at home. Affinity Online explores how online practices and networks bridge the divide between in-school and out-of-school learning, finding that online affinity networks are creating new spaces of opportunity for realizing the ideals of connected learning.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781479852758 20190211

• Part 1: Governance, Democracy, And Development
• Chapter 1: African Development and Democratization Trajectories by Gashawbeza W. Bekele and Adebayo Oyebade
• Chapter 2: The Political Ecology of Sustainable Development in Africa by Tadesse Kidane-Mariam
• Chapter 3: Revisiting the Promise of Democracy and Development in Africa by Phillip E. Agbebaku, William E. Odion, and Mohammed Itakpe
• Chapter 4: Beyond the Millennium Development Goals: Localizing the Development Agenda in Nigeria by Funmi Adewumi
• Chapter 5: Fallacy of Development in Africa by Sunday Layi Oladipupo
• Chapter 6: Political Economy of Postcolonial Rail Transportation Development, Management, and Privatization in Africa South of the Sahara by Tokunbo A. Ayoola
• Part 2: Democratization, Democratic Institutions, and Uneven Regional Development
• Chapter 7: The Legislature and Tenure Elongation in African Presidential Democracies by Joseph Yinka Fashagba and Rotimi Ajayi
• Chapter 8: The African Diaspora and the Quest for Democracy in Africa: Revisiting the June
• 12
• 1993 Presidential Election in Nigeria by Udida A. Undiyaundeye
• Chapter 9: Bill of Rights for Africa: Uneven Regional Development and Indigenous Peoples Protests by R.T. Akinyele
• Part 3: Gender Relations, Healthcare, and Development
• Chapter 10: Vanishing or Emerging Voices? Nigerian Women and Political Participation by Ngozi U. Emeka-Nwobia
• Chapter 11: Women, Conflict, and Nigeria's Sustainable Development Agenda by Adaora Osondu-Oti
• Chapter 12: Gabon's Giant Step in Healthcare by Biale Zua.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This book interrogates contemporary debates, controversies, achievements, challenges, and future prospects of African development and democratization from varied theoretical perspectives. The diverse issues and sub-themes addressed in this volume include tenets of democracy such as democratization, democratic institutions, good governance, term limits, minority rights, and women's political participation; and dynamics of development such as economic growth, liberalization, development strategies and models, Millennium Development Goals, uneven regional development, sustainable development challenges, transport development and management, and health and development. Featuring established and emerging scholars, this book is a vital resource for scholars, policy makers, and students interested in African politics and development.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781498564519 20190318

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Reflecting on Africa's Contemporary Dynamics
• Chapter 2: Changing Politics
• Chapter 3: Respecting Diversity
• Chapter 4: Understanding Policy Space
• Chapter 5: Structural Transformation through Industrialisation
• Chapter 6: Increasing Agricultural Productivity
• Chapter 7: Revisiting the Social Contract
• Chapter 8: Adjusting to Climate Change
• Chapter 9: Inserting Agency in the Relations with China
• Chapter 10: Conclusions.
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"Lopes brings his rigour, insight, and experience to this timely new book, presenting a compelling rethink of traditional development models in Africa and the need to seize on transformational change to build a sustainable future for the continent." -Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary General "Some readers will enjoy Lopes' eclectic brilliance and breath-taking culture. Others will salute his ability to bring compelling new angles to every topic. Everyone will be impressed with his craftsmanship, his rich and multi-faceted approach to development, and his high ethical standards. It is impossible to read this jewel book and not feel smarter." -Celestin Monga, African Development Bank's Vice President and Chief Economist "Drawing on his distinguished academic career, policy experience at the highest level, and deep love of the continent, Lopes provides a visionary analysis of Africa's current problems and future prospects. This book provides a highly unusual combination of intellectualism and hard-nosed pragmatism. A singular achievement." -Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, UK "Thorough, thought-provoking, and beyond rhetoric: definitely a must-read for anyone who wants to understand Africa's present and future." -Enrico Letta, former Prime Minister of Italy, Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po, France Lopes delivers an overview of the critical development issues facing the African continent today. He offers readers a blueprint of policies to address issues, and an intense, heartfelt meditation on the meaning of economic development in the age of democratic doubts, identity crises, global fears and threatening issues of sustainability.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9783030012908 20190304

• Introduction: the African Union Development Agency and Africa's transformation in the twenty-first century: innovation or continuity?--
• 1. An analytical framework to explain the origin, development, and effects of AUDA--
• 2. The foundations and first generations of structural adjustment programs--
• 3. Partial reorientation of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank discourse and the creation of AUDA--
• 4. AUDA and international financial institutions: change or continuity?--
• 5. AUDA in the twenty-first century: evolution, implementation of key programs, institutional development, and inter-state coperation--
• 6. Financing Africa's development in the twenty-first century: assessment and perspectives of AUDA's resource mobilization strategy--
• 7. The way forward to transforming Africa by 2030/2063: resource mobilization, financing, and capacity-building strategies for effective delivery of the sustainable development goals and the African Union Agenda 2063-- Conclusion: continental development fifteen years after the creation of AUDA: theoretical and practical implications.
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Africa is home to many of the world's fastest-growing economies. This powerful book traces new continental institutions for development and their capacity to affect economic growth, regional integration, and international cooperation in Africa. It also assesses Africa's ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union's Agenda 2063. As the continent's most ambitious development initiative since independence, the African Union Development Agency (or AUDA, previously known as the New Partnership for Africa's Development or NEPAD) provides an excellent case study for examining how an African-based, continent-wide development institution emerged. Inspired by the ideas of Pan-Africanism and the African renaissance, NEPAD was created to bring Africa into the globalizing world, to close the gap between developing and developed countries, to enhance economic growth, and to eradicate poverty. Almost two decades after NEPAD's creation and given its transformation into AUDA, this brilliant book examines AUDA's role in achieving these goals.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781108456203 20190128